Monday, January 11, 2016

Casting News - Return Dates Set for 'Bosch' and 'Catastrophe'; Laura Vandervoort Joins 'Supergirl'; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - January 11, 2016

ABC's The Muppets; Amazon's Bosch & Catastrophe; CBS' Supergirl; The CW's Supernatural; and HBO's Big Little Lies.





AMAZON's BOSCH and CATASTROPHE
  • The online streaming service has announced return dates for a pair of second season shows. Bosch starring Titus Welliver will return on Friday, March 11 with its 10-episode second season. Meanwhile, Catastrophe starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney begins its 6-episode second season on Friday, April 8.
HBO's BIG LITTLE LIES
  • Merrin Dungey, Larry Sullivan, David Monahan and Iain Armitage have been cast on the upcoming miniseries starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. Dungey will play Detective Adrienne Quinlan, the lead detective working on the murder case. Sullivan and Monahan will play a married couple and parents of a child at the elementary school. Armitage will play Ziggy, Jane's (Shailene Woodley) son.
ABC's THE MUPPETS
  • Utkarsh Ambudkar (The Mindy Project, Pitch Perfect) has booked a recurring role on the comedy's first season. He will play a network executive who is a branding expert who wants to come in and change everything about Up Late with Miss Piggy.
CBS' SUPERGIRL
  • Laura Vandervoort - who previously played Kara Zor-El on The WB's Smallville - will appear in an upcoming episode of the drama's first season, it was announced from the Television Critics Association's winter press tour today. She will play Indigo, a living strong-willed supercomputer that was sentenced to Fort Rozz after turning against the people of Krypton.
THE CW's SUPERNATURAL
  • Jim Beaver and Steven Williams will reprise their roles as Bobby and Rufus in an upcoming episode of the drama's eleventh season. Both actors will appear via flashbacks when Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) investigate an old case that was once investigated by Bobby and Rufus back in Season 5.